Why women do not want the vote.
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06064 Author/Creator: Place Written: Boston Type: Book Date: 1885-1903 Pagination: 2 v. Order a Copy
Two-volume bound compilation of 94 different anti-suffrage pamphlets and leaflets. Most issued by Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women. Most leaflets run between 6-10 pages. Spine title on both volumes: "Why Women do not Want the Ballot." 8vo. Average no. of pages, about 6 to 10. One of the volumes has a separate leaf of contents. Both volumes. uniformly bound in buckram, with leather labels: "Why Women Do Not Want the Ballot". Includes "Aims of Massachusetts Association"; "Preamble and Protest of New York", "Protest of Illinois Assn."; "Woman's Protest to United States Senate Against Woman Suffrage"; "The Woman's Movement in America" by Mrs. Caroline F. Corbin-, "Some of the Reasons Against Woman Suffrage" and "An Open Letter to a Temperance Friend" both by Francis Parkman, BAL 15466D & 15472; "Of What Benefit to Women" by Mary A. J. M'Intire; "The Outlook - 1897 - Colorado" by Mrs. Charlotte M. Haile; "The New Woman and the Problems of the Day"; "Woman's Assumption of Sex Superiority" by Mrs. Annie Nathan Meyer; "Noblesse Oblige" by Mary A. Jordan of Smith College-, "First Annual Report of the Massachusetts Assn 1896;
"An Argument Against Woman Suffrage" by Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells; "Letter From Gail Hamilton (i.e. Mary Abigail Dodge), dated Augusta, Maine, Feb. 9,1886, 2 pages, BAL 4721; Thomas Wentworth Higginson's "An Argument Against Woman Suffrage" by Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells; "Letter From Gail Hamilton (i.e. Mary Abigail Dodge), dated Augusta, Maine, Feb. 9,1886, 2 pages, BAL 4721; Thomas Wentworth Higginson's "Unsolved Problems In Woman Suffrage", 1887, BAL 8348; "Woman Suffrage Unnatural and Inexpedient" by O.B. Frothingham, John Boyle O'Reilly, Richard H. Dana, et al., 1894, BAL 15247; and other material by Jeanette L. Gilder (co-founder and editor of The Critic), Carl Schurz, Mrs. Clara T. Leonard, Mrs. Rossiter Johnson, Elizabeth McCracken, Frank Foxcroft, and other men and women. 94 items.
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